Dec. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3637

Regulations regarding the Filling of a Vacancy on the Waimate Hospital Committee.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of November, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the Fifth Schedule of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, that the mode of election and tenure of office of the persons to be elected to be a local committee of management for the Waimate Hospital should be determined by regulations made from time to time by the Governor-General in Council: And whereas regulations were accordingly made on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and ten, but did not provide for the filling of extraordinary vacancies:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. SECTION 20 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, setting out the circumstances under which the office of a member of a Board becomes vacant, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the vacation of office by a member of the Waimate Hospital committee.

2. When a member of the Waimate Hospital committee vacates his office through the operation of the last preceding regulation, the Council of the county or borough, or the Hospital Board, as the case may be, by whom such representative was elected or appointed shall forthwith appoint a representative to hold office for the unexpired portion of the term of office of his predecessor.

3. If no such appointment is made within two months after the happening of the vacancy, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, make the required appointment.

4. No person shall be eligible to be elected or appointed as a member of the Waimate Hospital committee to whom subsections (2) (a) to (f) inclusive of section 19 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, apply.

5. The aforesaid regulations of the 24th day of February, 1910, are amended by the addition of the following:—

“Should the Waimate County Council or the Waimate Borough Council fail to elect, under the preceding regulation 5, the required number of representatives, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint such qualified persons as he thinks fit to be the representatives in lieu of those who ought to have been elected.”

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations prescribing Travelling-allowances of Stipendiary Magistrates.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of November, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon him by section five of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations prescribing the travelling-allowances of Stipendiary Magistrates, and doth direct that such regulations shall come into force on and from the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

REGULATIONS.

TRAVELLING-ALLOWANCES.

1. STIPENDIARY Magistrates shall receive travelling-allowance for personal expenses at the rate of 17s. 6d. per diem.

2. The allowance shall be for each day of twenty-four hours. The day shall be deemed to commence at the hour of departure from headquarters.

3. For any portion of a day the rate shall be one twenty-fourth of the full daily rate for each hour’s absence.

4. In computing the time of absence, a fraction of an hour, if less than half an hour, shall not be taken into account, but half an hour or more shall be reckoned as one hour.

5. When a Magistrate leaves and returns to headquarters the same day, actual and reasonable expenses only shall be paid.

6. Nothing in these regulations shall preclude the Minister from authorizing temporary special rates or amounts for travelling to meet special cases.

7. The cost of transport by land or sea will be paid by the Government, or when paid by the Magistrate travelling the same will be refunded to him on production of vouchers, but no vouchers for such expenses will be required for sums of 5s. and under, and vouchers for railway fares will not be required if the railway travelled upon and the extent of the journey is stated.

8. Public conveyances must be used where available, and the cost of motor-cars or special conveyances will not be allowed unless specially authorized.

9. All vouchers for travelling allowances or expenses must be made out in detail on the proper Treasury form, must state definitely the duty on which the Magistrate is travelling, and must be signed and certified by the claimant, and certified as correct by the Permanent Head of the Department or other authorized authority.

10. No Magistrate shall leave his district without the authority of the Minister of Justice or some officer authorized by him.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking the Naturalization of Peter Mandeno Sulenta.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of November, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS letters of naturalization were issued to Peter Mandeno Sulenta on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eleven:

And whereas the Governor-General in Council is satisfied that it is expedient for the welfare of the Realm to revoke the naturalization of the said Peter Mandeno Sulenta:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Revocation of Naturalization Act, 1917, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the naturalization of the said Peter Mandeno Sulenta shall be revoked, and that the said Peter Mandeno Sulenta shall cease to be a British subject naturalized in New Zealand as from the twenty-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Order in Council fixing Dues for Wharves, Opotiki Harbour, and fixing other Dues in lieu thereof.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of November, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the Harbours Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that in harbours where there is no Harbour Board the Governor-General in Council shall have all the powers, functions, duties, and authorities by the said Act conferred upon Harbour Boards, and may, in cases where such powers would be exercised under by-laws to be made by a Board, exercise the same under regulations to be made by Order in Council gazetted: And whereas there is no Harbour Board having jurisdiction in the Harbour of Opotiki:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 28, of the ninth day of the same month, the dues and rates specified in the Schedule thereto were prescribed for the use of the wharves in Opotiki Harbour:

And whereas it is desirable that the said Order in Council of the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, should be revoked, and that other dues and rates should be prescribed for the use of the said wharves: